THE devastation committed last week on the Municipal Bill did not prevent some of its not very judicious friends from encouraging the idea, in newspaper articles and in...

from the United States. At Vicksburgh, which we believe is in Kentucky, five persons connected with a gambling-house had been seized by the infuriated populace, and hanged...

against the French press have become unusually interesting. The Duke DE BROGLIE, THIERS, BIGNON. MAUGUIN, DUPIN, and ROYER COLLARD, are the principal orators. The Duke DE $eOGUK...

noon of the 15th, several battalions of the Urban Militia drew up in battle array in the Plaza Ma) or, and demanded the dismissal of the Ministry. Some detachments of regular...

On Tuesday, the Municipal Bill was recommitted, on the motion of Lord MELBOURNE. • Clause 5th was altered, on the Duke of WELLINGTON'S motion, not- withstanding the opposition...

Meetings have been held, during the week, in several of the prin- cipal Metropolitan parishes, to petition the House of Commons to reject the Lords' alterations in the Municipal...

In all parts of the country, meetings continue to be held in favour of Corporation Reform. Since our last publication, we have accounts of assemblies, more or less numerous, but...

Mr. Perrin has been appointed a Judge of the Irish Court of King's Bench, Mr. O'Loughlin Attorney-General, and Mr. Richards Solidi- sor- General. Sergeant Woulfe, the Catholic...

11th instant, and passed the following resolution ; which, it will be seen, is highly complimentary to Mr. O'Dwyer- " That we cannot allow this, the first public meeting held...

Preston, Blackford, Clithcro, Kendal, Blackburn, and other places in Lan- cashire. There was a good deal of shaking of beds and ringing of bells : many persons were frightened,...

THE King and Queen, with a distinguished party, went to Egham Races on Tuesday. On Wednesday, his Majesty attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, came to town to hold the usual Levee....

Lord Lyndhurst, who has been regularly installed chief of the faction. The Ex-Speaker, Lord Canterbury, has received notice to quit the Speaker's house in September. This step...

The Committee on the Orange Lodges sent an invitation, on Tues- day, to the Duke of Cumberland, to attend and give evidence in expla- nation of the difference between the...

in April last, at the mouth of the Derwent, Hobart Town ; 132 persons perished, mostly convicts. A private of the Eighty-fourth Regiment, named Pilkington, has been shot at...

Mr. Frederick Dundas intends to contest the representation of Orkney against the sitting Member, Mr. Balfour, in the event of an election. His politics are Whig, and he has...

brought out at this theatre on Monday night, with complete success, which it well merited ; for it is very pleasing and interesting, and was extremely well performed. It is...

play the People false on Monday next. In the Times this morning, Me- phistopheles lures them to destruction. These are the words of the Tempter- " Upon the whole, tee are not...

SATURDAY. No intelligence of interest has been received this morning from the Continent.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY. CANNING predicted that the House of Lords could not long co- exist with a Reformed House of Commons: we arc now testing the truth of this prediction. The...

Arrived—At Gravesend, August 21, Annabelle, Anstruther, from Singapore; 24th, Lucretia, Muirhead, from Bengal ; and Andromache, Andrews. from Bombay, 25111. Sir C. Malcolm,...

STOCK ETCRANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The prices of English Stocks have confirmed firm, and have even improved slightly, in spite of the threatening aspect of home politics; the...

postponement; but Lord BROUGHAM would not give way, and took some pains to point out the hardship which delay would inflict on Sir GEORGE WARRENDER- " In the present aspect of...

THE Morning Chronicle says that the Duke of CUMBERLAND bas been compelled to recoil from the work of seducing the alle- giance of the military, by the " terrors of an...

WHY are the Peers irresponsible? Why should they be irrespon- sible P—These are questions which the Peers have themselves forced upon the consideration of the public, by their...

" Fleetere si treitreo superos, Aeheronta movebo." "As for the Morning Post. it corn Straight to the mark, and reckons up all the forces which are at the disposition of the :...

a proverb applicable to nations as well as individuals. In all times, distant colonies and dependen- cies have been misigoverasd. The task of striving to obtain justice for...

THE years are not many since a very numerous and power- ful body of men in the country strenuously opposed all efforts to spread education, even of the simplest and commonest...

an al- lusion to some incomprehensibility of the Standard of the same date. All that can be surmised from it is, that the Standard is still dreaming of traitors, gallows, and...

TO THE EDITOR OF TIlE SPECTATOR. SIR—The Civil List Fund being founded as a national reward for benefactors to science and to their country, and as a benevolent means of...

to be placed on sta- tistical returns, even when obtained under the authority of Parliament, it was stated at the late scientific meeting at Dublin, in reference to the...

THE person who designates himself the Baron DE LOS VALLES is a Frenchman, who rejoices in the long-resounding name of M. L. XAVIER AUG UET DE SAINT SYLVAIN. lie was born during...

Heeroav, The Career of Don Carlos since the Death of Ferdinand the Seventh ; being a Chap- ter in the History of Charles the Fifth. By his Aide-de camp. the Baron do los...

THOUGH not professing to offer the results of any new observa- tions, and modestly disclaiming any original discoveries, this work is an able and valuable treatise on a very...

THE forthcoming number of the Sacred Classics commences a -selection from the Sacred Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. The plan is excellent ; the execution good; and when this...

Hesse Homburg. the Lady of Lieut-Cel. Sir CHARLES DANCE, of a son. Oa the 26th lost. the Lady of Il, asorr BIDDIYI.PH, Esq., ki P.. of a BOO. On the 24th inst., at Otteriegton...